Ex's Driving Offences

Seanymph

Tell the DVLA his new address.

The court isn't the problem - they are getting their information from the DVLA.

Janepig

Seanymph wrote: »

Tell the DVLA his new address.

The court isn't the problem - they are getting their information from the DVLA.

That all depends on whether he has informed the DVLA of his change of address. And the Court would have had the OP's Ex's information from him, not necessarily from the DVLA. What the Court rely on is a print out from the DVLA when sentencing to see what endorsements, etc.. there might me on the licence.

Jx

Seanymph

My ex was in this situation with HIS ex - if you can follow that.

When he left her he left her the car, and she never put it into her name, so eventually years later the Bailiffs tracked him down to my house for HER parking fines.

We did have to talk to the court (and produce his rental agreements to show he lived elsewhere and divorce, and evidence of his having bought another car etc etc.

But it was the DVLA who had to update their information to her - as well as the courts - because every new ticket she got was in his name sent to their old marital home, so of course she binned them - binned the court summons - binned the letters chasing it - and then gave them my address when they turned up looking for him!

It was a pickle, but once we had proved to the DVLA and court that he moved out some years before, they had sent things to his old address on a car he no longer drove, and that she lived there and it was her car (he took pictures of it still on the drive) then they left him alone.

It was just a question of lining up the paperwork.

Yorkie1

The DVLA were relevant to your case, Seanymph, because as you say the parking fines were the cause of the fine and they need to get the address of the offending vehicle from DVLA.

The OP's situation is completely different basis because DVLA are not involved in the paperwork at all.

Seanymph

Yorkie you are making assumptions - parking was a driving offence, speeding is a driving offence.

there are many driving offences where this person could have been driving but not stopped by a policeman and not having attended court to give a false name and address.

In quite a few driving offence cases your registration is run, and DVLA provide the address.

So to say DVLA categorically AREN'T involved is a bit of an assumption - this ex idiot may not have given the wrong address, they MAY have the car registered to the wrong address still....

Neither of us know - but the OP should bear it in mind in case there is a car still registered to her house.

Yorkie1

Fair point, SN. From the way the OP worded the post, to me it meant that the OP's ex had appeared in court for 'proper' offences rather than 'parking' and given the OP's address - which may well have been correct at the time.

DVLA are not involved in that scenario.

But there may well be other scenarios as you say where their records come into play. (But speeding isn't one of them. That requires either a roadside stop or a response to a notice to confirm the driver's identity by way of preliminary identity / address details.)

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Yes these were 'proper' offences. Not speeding etc. Good points raised though about the DVLA, I'm pretty sure he does have his car registered to this address.